Hey, I never noticed that before....

Were there such things as mechanical rice pickers in the 1900s?

 

Yeah, I dunno why he didn't just claim it was a birth defect, or a war wound.

 

Hal Baylor's cop didn't look like he understood a word of what Kirk was telling him to be honest!
JB

 

He's probably encountered fast talkers before. "All right, buddy, what's your story?"

 

I was watching “Miri” today, noticed that when Spock is scanning the town, Nimoy is running his index finger over the “memory discs” almost like a scroll wheel.

It got me thinking, did we ever see those used as “memory discs” (maybe when Spock had his tricorder disassembled in “City”)?

 

What makes the scene funny is that Kirk is frantically ad-libbing, trying to explain Spock's odd appearance, and the cop couldn't care less! All he cares about is that he just caught two thieves red-handed. Hell, he's probably encountered weirder-looking characters than Spock in the line of duty.

 

Grubbier perhaps, even maybe a bit weirder but definitely not as alien!
JB

 

If the cop had roughed Spock up a bit, imagine his face when the perp bleeds green...

 

That was part of the joke. He had his history mixed up, so he didn't realize it was an anachronism. Seems like a realistic badimprovement. History was obviously nothing major

Y'know, like the the Voyage Home, not familiar with how swore in the past 30 years... "a double dumb ass on you"

 

Or Spock taking a lot of LDS previously...

 

The Naked Time. At the end when they realize time is going backwards, the music is a callout to H. G. Wells The Time Machine (1960).

See the Star Trek clip at about 1:30 and The Time Machine Clip at about 4:00. Listen closely.

 

Fascinating catch, but it's so subtle that I doubt if Alexander Courage was aware of it.

 

I missed that altogether.

 

Uh, not quite. The music in The Time Machine flutters back and forth, like leaves in a breeze. Up and down, like a sine wave. The Trek music is a driving, descending ripple, like someone drumming their fingers. Or a heartbeat.

(Back to the Future had a couple allusions to George Pal's Time Machine. The clock tower chiming when Marty arrives in downtown Hill Valley is akin to the clock tower heard in almost all of The Time Traveler's arrivals, including his return home. And the squeal of the wind-up toy car used in Doc's model, especially as it hits the floor and accelerates, is reminiscent of Pal's scale model, and even full scale machine at high velocity.)